You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that’s good practice. It’s definitely great practice to play a course that’s too...

When I was young, I thought it was thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in St. Paul’s High School, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The...

Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.

When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I’m upset when my movies flop. I take it very personally.

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it’s beginning to stretch its range as well.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

I’m not going to appeal to violence or aggression – of course not.

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is...

In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect.

I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don’t hate Jews.

Of course, you always give 100 percent, but at a home race you’re always more motivated, simply because you feel at home.

You have to have more than hope to get what you want in life.

When it comes to shoes, I always think Charlotte Olympia, of course! Her footwear is always feminine and sexy and also just right for every occasion.

Neil’s effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion...

People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don’t. They just get what they see, and they take that...

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It’s agony. Of course it’s stupid, but it’s agony.

Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.

Of course, neither David or myself ever saw a penny from them; it was the early days of merchandising.

Of course things get stagnant; people get too used to their environment, but that’s why I’m in my district every week, at meetings with my constituents.

Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.

I’d love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.

Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.

Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without...

You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course – and it’s important to stress this – you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack...

Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly...

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the ’70s.

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world’s people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That’s a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.

The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

I’m inspired when I find out about something that I didn’t know was a remake. An example is, of course, stuff like ‘The Fly,’ or ‘The Thing,’ or even ‘The Blob.’ For our generation, all...

When I was about 15… I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

Of course, I’m no dummy.

Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions.

I have insecurities of course, but I don’t hang out with anyone who points them out to me.

You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Of course, learning is strengthened and solidified when it occurs in a safe, secure and normal environment.

I think I’m the best, of course. How could I not?

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.

If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I’d want to come to Australia.

Fighters with 13 fights are winning world titles, and of course they don’t know how to behave.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

They talk about Amen Corner but there’s so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.

I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn’t changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for...

Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring...

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, ‘Of course they like it. They should like it.’